Constitution Quotes - Page 17

Idleness ruins the constitution

[The Constitution] is an experiment as all life is an experiment.

Freedom works, it turns out; the Constitution codified and structured freedom at a level unparalleled in world history.

Under our [constitutional system] - either we're going to have to rethink our Constitution, or we're going to have to rethink our process of decision-making.

We have introduced a democratic constitution, which put suvery South African on an equal basis.

Now that is dangerous, when the people don't know what's happening to their Constitution.

I am hesitant to say this about [Barack] Obama. Obama is a bad man in terms of the Constitution.

I'll go anywhere to talk about the Constitution. I believe in trans-partisan organizing around these issues.

It's enshrined in our Constitution that an individual has a right to release information and disseminate information that makes the powers that be uncomfortable.

The fact is there are a lot of things happening at the federal level that are absolutely beyond the jurisdiction of the Constitution. This is power that should be shifted back to the states.

In 1937, President Franklin Roosevelt reminded us that the Constitution is, and I quote, "a layman's document, not a lawyer's contract."

We need to reform the constitution in Chile. The current one was written and passed in 1980 during the dictatorship. Some changes were made after the return of democracy, but its origins remain illegitimate. Instead of continuing to make fixes here and there, we need to undertake fundamental changes to our constitution to make it reflect the reality of our democratic society.

I don't think people understand - atheists are really a disenfranchised minority in this country. There are six constitutions right now - state constitutions - that say things like what South Carolina says that, "No person who denies the existence of a supreme being shall hold any office under this Constitution."

Has our nation preserved, protected and defended the Constitution of the United States?

I guess I have a strong constitution.

I tell myself I bear witness. The real answer is that it's obviously my programming. And I lack the constitution for suicide.

U.S. Constitution declares rather unambiguously that Congress has the responsibility to “declare war.

Every being ought to do that which is according to its constitution; and all other things have been constituted for the sake of the superior, but the rational for the sake of one another.

Vigorous exercise will often fortify a feeble constitution.

Elegance has a bad effect on my constitution.

The Constitution is a living, breathing document that can speak to you and nobody else.

Just as the formation of the family is basic to the formation of the state, so the states themselves are the only units that can form the basic constitution of a viable international organization.

The only way the avoid a constitution crisis, and I'm not saying we're there yet, is to reassure the public that the person leading the government is someone who has loyalties other than to himself, not loyalties to the foreign governments that helped him financially.

Trust is not what the framers of the United States constitution and of this country relied on.

Those who would give us a "living" Constitution are actually giving us a dead one, since such a thing is completely unable to protect us against the encroachments of government power.